I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe.
On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down [...]
Techmeme is buzzing with the news that Facebook is finally going to provide custom usernames — and hence web addresses — for its 200 million users. The land grab begins in just over three days at facebook.com/username/.
If Dustin Moskovitz were dead, he’d be rolling over in his grave.
For those of you who don’t know [...]
I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference. The topic of my talk was “The Open, Social Web.” (PDF)
At first I struggled to develop a compelling or sensible narrative for the talk — as there is so much to it that I [...]